Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 236 316
Rank change year-on-year -133 +80 -41
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 500 681 748
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.38% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.54% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 257 301 411
10th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +0.07% +3.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year - +6.47% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -121 453 £63,076 -10.88% 546
London -36 273 £71,028 -9.81% 398
Work from Home +24 242 £63,000 -3.08% 193
UK excluding London -194 179 £62,500 - 197
North of England -14 65 £63,076 -15.90% 47
North West +19 42 £85,000 +30.77% 22
South East -149 31 £40,000 -36.00% 58
East of England -19 27 £65,000 -9.72% 17
Midlands -48 25 £52,500 -17.97% 28
South West -86 22 £68,528 +14.21% 18
West Midlands -25 20 £57,500 -4.17% 20
Yorkshire -36 20 £60,850 -22.73% 21
Scotland +15 7 £85,000 +4.62% 17
East Midlands -40 5 £37,500 -46.04% 8
North East -47 3 £63,076 -23.54% 4
Wales -56 3 £65,000 +8.59% 7
Northern Ireland -71 1 - - 9

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 16 (3.20%) Confluence
3 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (10.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.40%) Moqups
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (7.80%) Workfront
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) Shopify
3 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Eikon
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.20%) RMDS
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 81 (16.20%) SaaS
2 72 (14.40%) AWS
3 53 (10.60%) Azure
3 53 (10.60%) iPaaS
4 17 (3.40%) GCP
5 15 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.60%) GitHub
7 12 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.20%) Figma
9 10 (2.00%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.80%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.20%) Asana
13 5 (1.00%) Miro
14 4 (0.80%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 4 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.40%) Broadband
2 30 (6.00%) HTTP
3 10 (2.00%) WAN
4 8 (1.60%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.40%) Firewall
6 6 (1.20%) LAN
7 5 (1.00%) Network Security
7 5 (1.00%) NGN
8 4 (0.80%) MPLS
9 3 (0.60%) Intranet
9 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.60%) WLAN
10 2 (0.40%) DNS
10 2 (0.40%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.40%) Multicast
10 2 (0.40%) SAN
10 2 (0.40%) Skype
10 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.40%) VoIP
10 2 (0.40%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.60%) Metadata
2 11 (2.20%) Power BI
3 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.40%) Big Data
5 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.40%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.20%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.20%) MySQL
6 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.20%) Redis
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (7.20%) JIRA
2 6 (1.20%) Git
3 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.60%) Selenium
4 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.40%) Postman
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) JUnit
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 164 (32.80%) Marketing
2 162 (32.40%) Social Skills
3 145 (29.00%) Finance
4 76 (15.20%) Banking
5 64 (12.80%) Retail
6 58 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (11.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (11.40%) Law
8 53 (10.60%) Presentation Skills
9 46 (9.20%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (6.40%) Public Sector
11 26 (5.20%) Legal
12 21 (4.20%) Back Office
13 18 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (3.00%) Italian Language
15 14 (2.80%) Retail Banking
16 13 (2.60%) Manufacturing
16 13 (2.60%) Telecoms
17 11 (2.20%) German Language
18 9 (1.80%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 158 (31.60%) Product Manager
2 77 (15.40%) Product Owner
3 73 (14.60%) Senior
4 69 (13.80%) Lead
5 43 (8.60%) Senior Manager
6 41 (8.20%) Software Engineer
7 40 (8.00%) Senior Product Manager
8 30 (6.00%) Development Engineer
8 30 (6.00%) Software Development Engineer
9 26 (5.20%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.00%) Consultant
10 20 (4.00%) Developer
11 17 (3.40%) Product Lead
12 16 (3.20%) Platform Manager
13 15 (3.00%) Business Consultant
14 14 (2.80%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (2.80%) Development Consultant
15 12 (2.40%) AWS Developer
15 12 (2.40%) Azure Developer
15 12 (2.40%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.80%) REST
2 6 (1.20%) CSS
2 6 (1.20%) HTML
2 6 (1.20%) LangChain
2 6 (1.20%) React
2 6 (1.20%) Spring
3 5 (1.00%) Google Maps API
3 5 (1.00%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (1.00%) TensorFlow
4 4 (0.80%) LangGraph
4 4 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.60%) .NET
5 3 (0.60%) Pandas
6 2 (0.40%) CrewAI
6 2 (0.40%) FHIR
6 2 (0.40%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.40%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (0.40%) Node.js
6 2 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 174 (34.80%) Product Ownership
2 62 (12.40%) Social Media
3 54 (10.80%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (10.80%) Over-the-Top Content
4 39 (7.80%) Cloud Native
5 33 (6.60%) Public Cloud
6 24 (4.80%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.20%) AI Agents
8 15 (3.00%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.40%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (2.00%) Educational Technology
13 9 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.60%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.40%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.40%) Podcast
15 7 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
16 6 (1.20%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.20%) Linux
2 8 (1.60%) Windows
3 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.40%) Unix
3 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (62.20%) Roadmaps
2 219 (43.80%) Agile
3 151 (30.20%) Product Roadmap
4 130 (26.00%) Product Vision
5 113 (22.60%) AI
5 113 (22.60%) Decision-Making
6 107 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 99 (19.80%) User Stories
8 95 (19.00%) Customer Experience
8 95 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 92 (18.40%) Product Backlog
10 81 (16.20%) Product Requirements
11 76 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
11 76 (15.20%) Software Engineering
12 74 (14.80%) Sprint Planning
13 72 (14.40%) User Experience
14 69 (13.80%) Workflow
15 68 (13.60%) Product Strategy
16 67 (13.40%) Analytics
16 67 (13.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (8.40%) Java
2 23 (4.60%) Python
3 12 (2.40%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.20%) SQL
5 6 (1.20%) Bicep
5 6 (1.20%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.80%) R
7 3 (0.60%) Bash
7 3 (0.60%) C#
7 3 (0.60%) C++
7 3 (0.60%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.60%) PHP
8 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.20%) C
9 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (16.60%) Degree
2 15 (3.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.40%) Master's Degree
3 12 (2.40%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.80%) HND
5 8 (1.60%) HNC
6 7 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.40%) MBA
7 5 (1.00%) CSPO
7 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.00%) PMP
8 4 (0.80%) CCNA
8 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.60%) CISSP
9 3 (0.60%) PhD
10 2 (0.40%) Dell Certification
10 2 (0.40%) MCSA
10 2 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.80%) QA
2 21 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.80%) GDPR
4 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.80%) PERC
5 4 (0.80%) SLA
6 3 (0.60%) PMO
7 2 (0.40%) DICOM
7 2 (0.40%) HL7
7 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.60%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Firmware
3 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.00%) Terraform
2 7 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.40%) WSUS
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.20%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 58 (11.60%) Adobe
2 48 (9.60%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.00%) Google
3 15 (3.00%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.00%) Cisco
4 10 (2.00%) Oracle
5 7 (1.40%) Facebook
5 7 (1.40%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.00%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.00%) Juniper
7 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (0.80%) Toshiba
7 4 (0.80%) Workday
8 3 (0.60%) Aderant
8 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.60%) iManage
8 3 (0.60%) Reuters
8 3 (0.60%) VMware
9 2 (0.40%) CQG
9 2 (0.40%) Red Hat